The Middle Place (Voice) | Kelly Corrigan | A spectacular memoir for Gen Xers touched by cancer

The Middle Place (Voice) | Kelly Corrigan | The Middle Place

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	The Middle Place (Voice) Kelly Corrigan Voice, 2008 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 77 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A spectacular memoir for Gen Xers touched by cancer

I practically devoured this well written memoir by fellow cancer survivor Kelly Corrigan. If I could stay up past 10 these days, I'd have finished it sooner. Corrigan offers up a poignant, funny and touching look into life with cancer -- both as a patient and as a caregiver. If your family has been touched (okay, slammed) by cancer, read this outstanding memoir -- no matter how late you can stay up these days.

The Middle Place

Very good book. You feel like you are part of the family the way she writes this book. This is a very moving book being she is going through Breast Cancer and I will be doing the 2 day walk again for the second time around.

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I want to be her friend!

I knew nothing about this book when I picked it up! Less than 48 hours later, I read the entire thing.... As a mom, daughter and 35 yr old cancer survivor.....I cried, I laughed, I read passages out loud to my husband! Since then, I have passed this one along to every girl I know. In the end, you fall in love with her family and most of all, you want to be Kelly's friend...seriously, I KNOW I would like her!!! I look forward to her next book....BUY IT...you will NOT be sorry !
Jac
Tega Cay , SC

Kelly Corrigan Hit the Nail on the Head!

I caught wind of this book in a review published in Oprah's magazine and I was intrigued by the idea that "I was not alone in feeling in-between once being a child and now growing into an adult." I read the book in 4 days! It was just so REAL and Kelly Corrigan makes you feel like you want to fall in love with Greenie, her father...he epitomizes what a father should be or atleast what my dad has been to me - everything. Not only does the author draw you into what her experience of having cancer was like but she helps make sense of that place, the one you just can't put your finger one, the middle place. It's the one that acts like a white elephant in the room. The place that your parents fail to acknowledge because in their eyes, you are and always will be their little child. Yet, it's the place that you, as an adult, are ready to step into. The take away message for me was that it is OK, and often necessary, to step into that place and assert yourself as an adult. This is a phenomenal read for women and men, and one you would definitely want to share with a friend.

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